Fashion icon Grace Coddington, having retired from Vogue, is keeping busy with a new scent from Comme des Garcons and, it seems, being somewhat relaxed. Into the Gloss stopped by her apartment in New York—decorated by an artful, homey cluster of black and white photographs—and discussed her lifelong beauty routine,…

After nearly 30 years at Vogue, Grace Coddington—a longtime, cherished magazine family member known for her star turn in The September Issue and her hatred of Instagram—is stepping down from her position as creative director of the fashion bible.

Grace Coddington, creative director at Vogue and fashion’s true breakout star, is about to become an even bigger name than she’s ever been before. The style icon and former model has just sold the rights to her memoir Grace to A24.

After the success of her first memoirGrace, it’s been announced that Vogue editor Grace Coddington’s 2002 book Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Voguewill be reprinted with additional materials, and that Coddington will also be putting out a sequel of sorts.

While everyone and their mothers were going off about Beyoncé and Rihanna last night, the true winner of the Met Gala slipped under the radar in a pair of blue silk pajamas that were both attractive and functional, allowing her to walk, unencumbered, through the crowds of people with miles of cloth around their waists.

Instagram, a photo sharing app based around the principles of whimsical photo filters and screaming whenever you even think about a human breast, is up to its old tricks: Vogue creative director Grace Coddington had her account suspended, then reinstated, after she put up a pencil drawing of herself topless. In the…

I want to believe that the idea to run a slideshow of cats wearing, sitting on, or otherwise being around shoes was Grace Coddington's idea because it is both awesome and fairly incomprehensible at the same time. Why cats? Why shoes? How much photoshop went into making these cats look this amazing in print? How can I…

Did she have fun? Did she acknowledge the Kardashian-Jenners sitting a few seats over? Did she even exchange words with her seatmate Grace Coddington? Did she bob (heh) awkwardly along with the performance while hoping that none of the selfie-taking, screaming plebeians around her would notice that she can't dance?

Grace Coddington says that young designers could stand to have "a few things going wrong in their life. I mean, I hate to say it, but it teaches you a hell of a lot, you know." Coddington continues, "I think they need time, and I think too many of the young designers really think that they can step right out of school…

Grace Coddington's forthcoming memoir is excerpted in this month's Vogue. The passage is full of anecdotes about London and Paris in the 1950s and 60s — the life of a struggling newbie model, an engagement ended by an affair, flights over the channel with a pilot boyfriend who liked to do loop-the-loops, "snotty…

Among the insights contained in More Intelligent Life's sensitively written profile of Vogue's Grace Coddington is that she was once briefly married to Michael Chow, who founded the restaurant Mr. Chow. (It only lasted six months, because, Coddington says, "I was useless at being a restaurateur's wife — much too shy…

For the first time since its famous all-black issue of July, 2008, Italian Vogue has printed a magnificent 17-page editorial, featuring twelve black models. The story is definitely reaching for a languid, finger-curled, Harlem Renaissance feeling. Let's explore.

Model Coco Rocha unearthed and published the Steven Meisel photograph that Anna Wintour famously killed from Grace Coddington's 1920s-themed spread in The September Issue — previously only glimpsed ever-so-fleetingly in the movie. So this is it. It's purty. [OhSoCoco]